ML19338C234
| ML19338C234 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 10/18/1971 |
| From: | Woodard W NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
| To: | MAPLETON INTERVENORS |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8008050687 | |
| Download: ML19338C234 (3) | |
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ATO'11C SAFETI AND LICE 1:SIXG APPEAL EOARD:
Algie A. Wells, Chairman Dr. John H. Buck Dr. Lavrence R. Quarles
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50-329 CCNSIDiERS FOWER CO}i2ANY 50-330 (Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2)
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MEMORANDU'1 AUD CRDER 1/
On September 2, 1971, the Mapleton Intervenors filed n notice of appeal frc:a the August 26, 1971, Ceder of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Zoard in this proceeding, denying the motion to dicmiss application which had been filed by those' intervenors.
On September 13 cnd 16, 1971, the appliennt and the AEC Regulatory Staff, respectively, filed responses to that notice of appeal, both pointing out that the appeal was-interlocutory and urging that it be dismissed on that basis.
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Mapleton Intervenors: Nelson Acachilman, John L. Wentworth, "ilda M. Wentvorth, John Liddell, Loretta Liddell, and Wcadell II.
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- By way of backgr r nd, the.Mapleton Intervenors,' on August 9,1971,
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ifiled iwith?the presidin ' Atomic Safeti and Licensing Board 'a motion to o
dismiss ~the construct' ion permit:npplication. The grcunds. therefor were-L that-the applicant hadi" unlawfully caused the: procurement, partial manu-facture,: production and fabrication.of the reactor pressura vessel....
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uithout first having obtained a construction permit." ;The'intervenors3 assertedithat these activitics-constituted a violation of the Atomic.
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Energy Act, and that since a.. license could be revoked for such a' violation, it could clso be~ denied-on tha't basis..The'intervenors also claimed that the illegal' fabrication.of the reactor pressuro vessel not'on1.y put undue pressure upon the Licensing B'oard to grant a permit, but in fact "disabind" L
the Board from rendering decisions -upon tha fabrication process itacif, 2/
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.'The motion uns. supported by'the Saginau intervenors= and opposed by the p
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In denying the motion, the Board
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vioicte 'the-Atomic Energy Act or AEC regulations, and that the argueant that such advance procurement would add pre'ssure on the Board to perrait construction was simply a new formulation of the argument which had been
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rojected)by'the U.1S. Supreme-Court in PRDC v. International Union,.
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}2f' iSaginaw;Intervenors: Saginav Valley Nucicar Study Group, Citizens lCommittce forL the Environmental Protection of Michigan, Sierra a-
.s Club, Unit'ed Auto Workers of' America, Trout Unlihited, Ucst :lichigan Environmental ' Action Council,,Inc., - and University of. Michigan i 4 Environmental Las: Society.
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- The. Appeal Board has reviewed the filings.of the parties.on this-Since~nc initial' decision-has been issued by_the Licensing Board
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~in this proceeding,;we find that this appeal is interlocutory, within'the
. meaning -of 10 CFR Section -2.730(f)... Under thae seetion, no interlocutory -
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been designated to act for the 'Comission in this pro::eeding. Accordingly,.
the appeal of lupleton Intervenors is hereby denied as an interlocutory appeal.
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' The Commission's rules in 10 CFR Part 2 afford intervenors
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the reactor pressura vessel meets Commission requirements for the l
protection of the public health and safety.
This denial is'without prejudica to intervenors' lator raising, -in accordance with the Ccctission's Rules'of Practice', tlie questions'which they seek to have censidered.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY
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Docket Nos. 50-329 (Mid]And Plant, Units 1 and 2)
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50-330 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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I hereby certify that copies of (1) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER issued by Appeal Board dated October.18,1971; (2) Letter from J. H. Byers to Mr. Murphy dated October 13, 19'T1, in the captioned matter have been served on the following by deposit in the Un first class or air mail, this 18th day of October 1971-7
.s Arthur W. Murphy, Esq., Chairman Richard G. Smith, Esq.-//
,N Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Smith & Brooker, P. Cd Columbia University School of Inv 703 Washington Avenue J
.-1 435 West 116th Street, Box 38 Bay City, Michigan 48706 e
New York, New York 10027 Harold P. Graves, Esq'.
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Dr. Clark Goodman John K. Restrick, Esq.
-x Professor of Physics Consumers Power Company-
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University of Houston 212 West Michigan Avenue N W 3801 Cullen Boulevard Jackson, Michigan 49201 Houston, Texas 77004 Mr. R. C. Youngdahl Dr. David B. Hall Senior Vice President Los Alamos Scientific Iaboratory Consumers Power Company P. O. Box 1663 212 West Michigan Avenue Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544 Jackson, Michigan 49201 Dr. Stuart G. Forbes.
Honorable Frank Olds, Chairman 100 Tennessee Avenue, Apt. 37 Midland County Poard of Redlands, California 92373 Supervisors 623 St. Charles Street Thomas F. Engelhardt, Esq.
Midland, Michigan 48640 David E. Kartalia, Esq.
Regulatory Staff Counsel Honorable Jerome Maslovski U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Assistant Attorney General, State i
Washington, D. C. 20545 of Michigan Seven Story Office Building Robert. Iovenstein,, Esq.
525 Weat Ottava Jerome E. Sharfman, Esq.
Iansing, Michigan h8913 Lovenstein and Newman 1100 Connecticut Avenue, N. W.
Honorable Curtis G. Beck Washington, D. C. 20036 Assistant Attorney General State of Michigan Seven Story Office Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 o
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- Myron M. Cherry, Esq.
William A. Groening, Jr., Esq.
109 North Dearborn Street-James 'N. O'Connor, Esq.
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.The Dov. Chemical Company
. Chicago,' Illinois 60602 2030 Dow Center Midland, Michigan-h86h0
- Anthony Z. 'Roisman, Esq..
Berlin, Roisman & Kessler William J. - Ginster, Esq.
1910,N Street,'N..W.,
- Washington, D.' C. 20036.
Merri n Building-Suite 4 Saginav, Michigan-48602
= James A.'Kendall, Esq.'
. Currie and Kendall Mr. Wendell H. Marshall 135 North Saginav Road RFD No. 10, Mapleton Midland, Michigan 48640 Midland, Michigan h8640
'Dr. Wayne.-E. North, Chairman Irving Like, Esq.
Midland Nuclear Power Comnittee Reilly, Like and Schneider P. O. Box'335 200 West Main Street Midland, Michigan 48640 Babylon,.New York 11702 Milton R. Wessel, Esq.
Allen Kezabom, Esq.
J. Richard Sinclair, Esq.
Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler h25 Park Avenue New York,-New York 10022 kt h /L-h%
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